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Staten @anni (title. e i Mw M FLAVEL CREAMER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND T. W..LADD, OF NEWl YORK CITY.

Letters Patent No. 86,060, dated January 19,1869.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pitt of the lama.

To allwhom fit may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLAvEL OREAMER, of Brooklyn,

This invention relates to a new and improved arrangement for applying the power of a spring or Weight to the propulsion of machinery, it being an addition to the first series of motions of a clock, or similar movement, whereby the objectionable click or noise isy avoided, aud whereby the power of a spring or weight is more directly applied for propelling light machinery, as forV driving sewing-machines, churning, &c.

Figure l represents a sectional side elevation ofthe machine.

Figure -2 is a view of the opposite side, showing the method of imparting motion from a shaft to a rock# shaft and crank-shaft.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s.

In this example of my invention, I employ the spring and a portion of the movement of an ordinary clock.

My addition and improvement commence with the wheel A, which is placed on and fastened to the shaft B.

The teeth of this Wheel are something in the form of ratchet-teeth, as seen in fig. 2.

It is, of course, propelled by the actuating-spring or Weight of the movement.

In its revolution' it imparts motion to the two pawls C D, alternately, the endsof which pawls are attached, by pivots or joint-pins, to one or more disks e on the shaft f. y

These pawis may be curved or bent, as seen inthe drawing,vand they are guided by the pins t' i, which rest and slide on the planes oo.

The pawls are so arranged that the wheel acts upon` them alternately. When the wheel comes in contact with the end of one, the other lets go, and the effect is to rock the shaft f.

g is a lever on the shaft f, which partakes of its mo tion7 and is oscillated vertically thereby, from the outer end of which lever g, a vertical reciprocating motion may be obtained, as indicated in the drawing..

The opposite end of the lever gis connected with a crank on the iy-wheel shaft h.

J is the crank.'

K is the iiy-wheel.

L is a pulley, from which motion is imparted to revolving machinery.

Rotary motion is given the shaft h by the oscillating lever g, operating on the crank J.

The crank-pin works in a slot, m, in the lever g, so that the lever has no longitudinal motion. The leverfulcrum is the shaft f.

By this arrangement, either rotary or reciprocating motion is'obtained from the spring in'a simple and drect manner.v y

I do not confine myself to any particular arrangement for conveying the power of the spring, or of a weight, to the shaft B, or for regulating the motion.

The advantages of this method are that it works almost noiselessly, thus doing away with the objection-v able click of the ordinary escapement-movement, and in obtaining either a rotary or reciprocating movement, as may be desired, in a very easy `and` direct manner.

It also avoids the friction produced by what is known as the ily-movernent, and it consequently allows the spring to be employed to its utmost capacity for giving strength to this movement.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentrlhe combinationand arrangement of the wheel A., propelled by a weight or spring, with pawls C and D, guided by the planes o o, and rocking the shaft f, and communicating motion to the lever g, crank J, and shaft It, all substantially as described.

The above-specification of my invention, signed by me, this 27th day of November, l1868.

FLAVEL CBEAMER.

Witnesses:

FRANK BLocKLnY, E. GREENE COLLINS. 

